The 2015-2016 upfronts were announced last week and networks presented their line-ups for the fall season and 2016 mid-season replacements. While it can’t all be attributed to the Empire effect, the networks are “diversifying” — or as Shonda Rhimes calls it “normalizing — their dramas and comedies.

Variety reports that Orlando Jones, who played Irving, has been given the axe. This is surprising given Orlando Jones has been the show’s biggest fan, and the only member of the Sleepy Hollow cast to regularly engage with fans on social media.